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Explorer
THE
SEPTEMBER 2021
New Zealand Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern officially opening the inaugural Explorer Conference. © AHT/Anna Clare Students whitewater rafting at Vector Wero Whitewater
Park. © AHT/Marcus Waters
Explorer Conference Inspires
Antarctic Heritage Trust was excited to Wero Whitewater Park to take part in action- Hannah and Yalda’s teacher, Sean McGregor
deliver our inaugural Explorer Conference based learning activities. said, “My students and I felt very welcome.
in South Auckland, New Zealand, which was The day felt extremely well organised and
Former Trust Governance Intern William
attended by 100 Year 12 students from local professionally structured. The presenters
Pike, who lost his leg in an eruption on
high schools. were world class and did an exceptional job
Mount Ruapehu, delivered a keynote speech.
at captivating the audience. It was a highly
The Conference was officially opened William climbed Mount Scott in Antarctica
successful and enjoyable day.”
by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Rt Hon with the Trust in 2017.
Jacinda Ardern, who told the students Teacher Amara Naus from Southern Cross
“My message is to step outside your comfort
the story of her childhood hero, Sir Ernest Campus said, “My students were definitely
zone. Don’t be afraid, have the confidence to
Shackleton and urged them not to let a lack inspired to step outside their comfort zones.
know that new experiences will make your
of confidence hold them back. At first, a few were sceptical, but by the
stronger – don’t let anything hold you back,”
end they were more open and excited to
Focused on the explorer qualities of he told the students.
try new things. They are already speaking
curiosity, resilience, leadership, innovation
For Edgewater College students Hannah to younger students about the potential to
and teamwork, the Conference encouraged
King and Yalda Ahmadi, the conference was attend next year’s Conference.”
students to adopt an explorer mindset and
a day to remember.
have the confidence to step outside their Among Inspiring Explorer alumni was
comfort zones. They heard from inspirational “I’ll always remember the Prime Minister Brando Yelavich who was the first New
speakers and workshopped topics led by saying that you never know what you’re Zealander to circumnavigate the country on
alumni from the Trust's Inspiring Explorers capable of until you try,” said Hannah. foot, walking the 8,700km coastline. Brando
Expeditions™. Eleven of the Trust’s alumni joined the Trust’s expedition to ski across the
Yalda says the stories the Inspiring Explorers
took part, representing four of the Trust’s Greenland ice cap in 2018.
shared were amazing.
polar expeditions. Trust alumni and former
“Through the many different and challenging
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate students “You don’t often hear stories like that. It
experiences I’ve had, I’ve learned that
Jaylee Savage and A’aifou Kaufusi-Potenami made me realise that we can dream big and
achieving your dreams can be as simple
encouraged their peers to challenge achieve hard things if we set our minds to it,”
as changing your mindset and how you
themselves before they headed to Vector said Yalda.
perceive things. I shared some of the times I
Antarctic Heritage Trust Newsletter (New Zealand)
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Explorer Conference Inspires continued
learned the hard way and urged the students Thank You
to learn from my mistakes!” The Trust would like to acknowledge primary
Trust General Manager Operations and supporters Sir Noel and Sue, Lady Robinson,
Communications Francesca Eathorne says and contributors to the Inspiring Explorers™
that it was exciting to see the Inspiring Fund for making the Explorer Conference
Explorers alumni sharing their stories, possible.
leading the Conference with passion and
confidence and seeing how they engaged If you want to help fund more
programmes like the Conference,
with students, encouraging them throughout
Inspiring Explorers alumni delivered inspirational speeches visit nzaht.org/sustain
and workshops. Left: William Pike © William Pike. the day to embrace an explorer mindset.
Gearing Up for a Big Conservation Season
Covid-19 continues to have a major impact
on people and programmes across the Ross
Sea Heritage Restoration Project (RSHRP).
Ross Island
This season the On-Ice conservation team
will undertake deferred maintenance, which
means both a larger team size and longer
duration on Ross Island than a standard
maintenance season. Border restrictions and
Covid-19 permitting, the team will consist
of our two Trust Programme Managers
(Al Fastier and Lizzie Meek), a heritage
carpenter and four artefact conservators,
who will spend two weeks in quarantine in
New Zealand before deploying, followed by
a two-month summer season at the Ross
Island explorer bases. The four conservators
will remain at Scott Base for the winter of
2022, which will be the first time the Trust Work on the Venesta store cases at Shackleton’s Hut at Ciarán Lavelle and Sue Bassett cleaning the stables at Scott’s
Cape Royds will be part of the upcoming season’s deferred Cape Evans Hut. © AHT/Lizzie Meek
has run a winter conservation programme maintenance programme. © AHT/Lizzie Meek
since 2014.
The deferred maintenance programme is an Cape Adare
adjacent floorboards then being tracked
opportunity for the team to address some
through the hut by visitors. To resolve this Work on site at Borchgrevink’s Huts
of the more complicated conservation
the team will place a protective tray or at Cape Adare has been postponed
issues facing the sites. An example at
‘bund’ beneath the seal blubber stack. this season, due to logistic constraints
Shackleton’s Hut at Cape Royds is the 1907
The Trust will continue its monitoring associated with Covid-19.
Venesta store cases that continue to suffer
warping and delamination. There is the programme, including collecting With the Antarctic Heritage Trust AR
potential for the sides of the Venesta cases information on temperature and relative App you can bring objects into your own
to rupture and be lost to the environment, humidity at each historic site, building environment that were left behind at Cape
causing environment damage. In order levels and snow/ice deposition, timber Adare by Carsten Borchgrevink’s expedition
to halt the losses, maintain the storage moisture content data, and inspection and Scott’s Northern Party expedition. The
capacity for historic contents, and maintain and documentation of a select range of app is available to download for free from
the interpretive qualities the boxes bring conservation treatments on different Google Play or the App Store.
to the site, the team will continue the material types. This helps us understand the
programme from the 2005 and 2010 changes being experienced and guides and
seasons, both conserving and replacing the informs future maintenance needs. UKAHT Partnership
degraded panels, while continuing to store The UKAHT conservation programme has
Over the winter, conservators will carry out
them onsite for possible future use. also been impacted by Covid-19, resulting
focused re-treatment of vulnerable iron alloy
in a much-reduced plan for an On-Ice
At Scott’s Cape Evans Hut, the main task artefacts, which despite previous treatment,
team this season. The Trust’s Programme
will be to reduce the level of environmental continue to corrode at varying rates. They
Managers continue to support UKAHT
contaminants in the stables and western will select these objects during the summer
under our partnership agreement, to
annex, which are a risk to the artefacts and transport them to Scott Base where
develop conservation and implementation
there. At Scott’s Discovery Hut at Hut Point, they will work on them in a laboratory
plans for the sites on the Antarctic
a solution has been developed to overcome between February and October 2022.
Peninsula which UKAHT cares for.
the issue of blubber oil seeping into
Students Upskill in Preparation for Expedition
In July, South Auckland high school students
from Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate took their
first steps in the Trust’s In the Footsteps
of Hillary Inspiring Explorers Expedition™,
which will culminate in an attempt to climb
Mount Tapuae-o-Uenuku (South Island, New
Zealand). The team spent a weekend at
Mount Ruapehu in the central North Island of
New Zealand to learn some of the essential
mountain skills they will need for their
expedition later in the year.
Expedition Leader and Trust General
Manager Commercial and Partnerships,
Marcus Waters, and mountain guide, Anna
Keeling, taught the students about the
basics of what to wear in the outdoors, how
to use harnesses and fixed lines, how to walk
with crampons, and carry out self-arrests.
The students have been working hard to
increase their fitness and stamina with Left to right: Liz Iakopo, Harry Clark, Julip Mati, Tusiga Maalo, Sarah Magele, Denise Su, Lasini Tali with guide Anna Keeling
the help and mentoring of New Zealand at Mount Ruapehu. © AHT/Marcus Waters
rugby league legend Ruben Wiki, and his
Marcus says, “The students have developed Tapaue-o-Uenuku as his first real mountain
wife Santa Wiki. Funded primarily by CLM
an amazing team dynamic, they are climb, and the opportunity for the students
Counties Manakau, Ruben and Santa run
incredibly supportive and encouraging of to follow in his footsteps will be an incredible
weekly training sessions for the team at their
one another to try new things, push outside experience. It will help them develop their
Wiki Works Gym in Ōtara, South Auckland,
their comfort zone, and persevere when explorer mindset.”
along with regular weekend training walks.
things get tough. Sir Edmund Hillary counted
Funding Update
The Trust is grateful to the New Zealand of programmes from Inspiring Explorers We are looking to grow support for the
Government which continues to fund Expeditions™ to Inspiring Explorers™ Inspiring Explorers™ Fund and programme
the Trust’s core operations costs for Education the diverse programme engages to engage and connect more youth with
the 2021-22 financial year. This funding, and inspires youth with the incredible exploration.
delivered through the Ministry for Culture legacy of exploration we care for, ensuring
and Heritage under the auspices of our it is relevant, accessible and meaningful in
responsible Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, today’s world. Visit nzaht.org/sustain to learn more
in her capacity as Associate Minister for Arts,
We are delighted to share that our launch
Culture and Heritage ensures every dollar
match challenge appeal was successfully
donated to the Trust this year will go directly
completed on 30 June 2021. We reached
to programme delivery.
our goal of raising an initial $150,000, which Grant Success
becomes $300,000 towards the Fund thanks The Trust is particularly grateful to the
Inspiring Explorers™ Fund to the generous 1:1 match funds offered New Zealand Lottery Grants Board
In April the Trust launched the Inspiring by a few key donors. Thank you to all our for a $193,000 grant to assist a major
Explorers™ Fund. This exciting new initiative supporters who donated to the launch of the cataloguing project of the Trust’s
is helping to grow the next generation Inspiring Explorers™ Fund. We hope you have image collection which contains around
of inspiring connected youth with an enjoyed reading some of the ways your gift is 100,000 images.
explorer mindset. Spanning a wide variety already making an impact in this newsletter.
Over the next two years a team of four
full time project technicians will work
to transition the Trust’s current image
assets (which are a mix of digital and
hardcopy) and associated metadata, to
an online database called Recollect. The
project also includes the development of
a public website portal that will make an
extensive collection of images available
to the public and showcase Antarctica’s
most important historic assets being
restored, maintained and managed.
Examples of the diverse range of images in the Trust’s digital collection. Left: The 2017 Inspiring Explorers Expedition™
team on the summit of Mount Scott, Antarctica. © William Pike Right: Images of a jam jar before and after conservation
treatment. © AHT
Trust Supporter News Alumni News
Sir Grahame Sydney Anzac Gallate Antarctic Society Volunteer, he took part in
In New Zealand’s Queen's Birthday Honours, Inspiring Explorer (2020) early hut restoration efforts at Scott’s Terra
artist and Trust supporter Sir Grahame Anzac, the creative visionary Nova Hut (Cape Evans) and Shackleton’s
Sydney has been named a Knight Companion of the Trust’s augmented Nimrod hut (Cape Royds). We greatly
of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Best Anzac Gallate. reality activated My Explorer enjoyed Graeme’s detailed and entertaining
known for his landscapes of Central Otago, © AHT/Marcus
Journal, has been recognised accounts of his time on Ice, and the way
Waters
Sir Grahame was honoured for services to art. as a finalist in the Young his impressions of the place 60 years ago
He has a strong connection with Antarctica Enterprise Scheme (YES) Alumni Awards. remain as indelibly sharp and meaningful as
and we extend our congratulations to YES aims to inspiring young people to they did back then. Antarctica is like that!
Sir Grahame and his wife, former Trust discover their potential in business and in life
Administrator, Fiona Lady Sydney. Dr Fred Davey
and the awards celebrate the achievements
Emeritus Scientist, GNS Science, Former
and impact of YES alumni.
A Painted Voyage Trustee and Member, Fred Davey has
Depicting News Zealand’s Maritime History Diana McCormack recently published a research paper in
The Art of Sean Garwood Diana was the Trust the New Zealand Journal of Geology
Trust supporter Sean Garwood’s exhibition Conservation Ambassador in and Geophysics on Cenozoic continental
‘A Painted Voyage’ will be held at the 2017. After taking maternity rifting in the north-western Ross Sea. In
Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland, leave last year, Diana has layman’s terms Fred’s paper is looking at the
Diana
New Zealand from 9 to 24 October 2021. McCormack returned to work at the geological development of the western Ross
clearing snow at
The paintings featured in this exhibition, Cape Evans in National Museum of the Royal Sea during the past 60 million years.
represent the most comprehensive visual 2017. © AHT Navy in Portsmouth, UK, in a
Ihlara McIndoe
survey of New Zealand’s rich and diverse new role as Head of Conservation. Diana
In her role as NZSO National
maritime history ever assembled in a solo also had a short article about her
Youth Orchestra Composer-
exhibition. Featured in the exhibition will be Conservation Ambassador role published in
in-residence, 2020 Inspiring
Shackleton’s Nimrod departing Lyttelton Icon News, the Institute of Conservation’s
in 1908. Ihlara McIndoe. © Explorer Ihlara’s Antarctic
magazine for members. AHT/Owain John inspired composition
Graeme Wilson Ephemeral Bounds has been performed by
Recently the Trust had an the NZSO National Youth Orchestra in
unexpected but very welcome Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand in
visit from Graeme Wilson, one July. Ihlara has also been interviewed by
Graeme Wilson. of the earliest historic hut Radio New Zealand, and SOUNZ, the Centre
© AHT/Lizzie caretakers (before the Trust for New Zealand Music.
Meek
was formed). Graeme and his
Mike Dawson
daughter Ainslie were in town for the
Mike’s film Kwanza: The
Antarctic Society mid-winter dinner, and
Drowning Diamond of Angola
following that, took the opportunity to catch
Detail showing Shackleton’s Nimrod departing Lyttelton featured as part of an
1908 by Sean Garwood. © Sean Garwood up with Programme Manager Lizzie Meek.
Mike Dawson. adventure film evening with
Graeme was part of Leslie B Quartermain’s © AHT/Marcus screenings around New
More information visit hut restoration party in Antarctica 1960- Waters
fineartsociety.net and Zealand. The film showcases
seangarwood.co.nz 61 summer season. Joining the team as an
Mike’s journey to kayak the Kwanza River –
Africa’s fourth largest river and one of the
Virtual Reality National Tour world’s last un-run rivers! Mike was an
BOOK NOW Inspiring Explorers™ mentor (2019, 2020)
and is a Trust Governance Intern.
FOR 2022
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be heavily booked. Register at nzaht.org to
bring the VR to your school or community
venue or contact:
We welcome the following new members:
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would welcome your donation or support as
Thanks to principal sponsor Ryman Healthcare an Antarctic Explorer Club member.
and national tour sponsor Dulux New Zealand.
More information on how to support the
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